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Tag: diversity

  • Exploring asexuality: how research and awareness benefit each other for this minority identity

    Exploring asexuality: how research and awareness benefit each other for this minority identity

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    Today is the start of Ace Week, a global effort for awareness and education about asexuality. This underrepresented identity is still not as widely known, let alone understood, as it should be, in the general public or in scientific circles. Research into asexuality is, therefore, faced with an enormous task, of which we are still…

  • NASA’s First Nigerien Scientist

    NASA’s First Nigerien Scientist

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    Fadij Maina (29)  has become the first scientist from Niger, as well as the first  African scientist, to work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Maina earned her PhD in Hydrology in 2016, and joined the US space agency at the end of last month. She will be using mathematical models and data…